Weekly WordPress News: GoDaddy Launches WooCommerce Hosting & Halloween Sales

This week, we have lined up some scary Halloween WordPress deals for you.

Furthermore, there’s big moves in WordPress hosting as GoDaddy launched an eCommerce hosting plan in partnership with WooCommerce.

WordPress.org also published the WordPress 5.3 field guide if you want to get a head start on the next release.

Halloween Sales

• MalCare: 25% off on All Annual Security Plans
• BlogVault: 25% off on All Annual Backup Plans
• Themeum: 40% off on all WordPress Themes & Plugins
• AliDropship:
  • 30% OFF AliDropship Plugin with the code HALLOWEEN30 at checkout
  • 20% OFF Custom Dropshipping Store with the code HALLOWEEN20 at checkout
  • 35% OFF all Add-ons with the code HALLOWEEN35 at checkout
• WPeka: Use coupon SPOOKY25 on checkout to get a 25% discount on all products.

Let’s get to all of this week’s WordPress news…

WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES

• GoDaddy Launches eCommerce Hosting Plan in Partnership with WooCommerce – GoDaddy makes another big move in the WordPress hosting space.
• Curated List of Featured Themes Coming to the Theme Directory – I think useful filters would be more helpful.
• WordPress 5.3 Field Guide – the field guide for WordPress 5.3.
• Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins – Sucuri details cryptomining activity that they found in fake plugins.
• Fake UpdraftPlus Plugins – more from Sucuri on malicious fake versions of the popular UpdraftPlus backup plugin.

TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS

• How To Make Transactional Emails A Sales Opportunity In WooCommerce – tips for using transactional emails in WooCommerce.
• How to Fix WordPress Emails Not Sending Issue With SMTP – problem with emails not sending? Here’s how to fix things.
• How to check if WordPress sends email – here’s how to check if the WordPress email function works
• The State of HTML Email in WordPress – another one about email from Delicious Brains.
• How to Analyze and Reduce HTTP Requests on WordPress – how to speed up your WordPress site by analyzing HTTP requests.
• How to Use WPML Automatic Translation – Weglot explains how + gives you an obvious alternative ;-)
• The No-Plugin Guide for a Multilingual WordPress Site Using Multisite – a neat guide from WPMU DEV.

RESOURCES & HALLOWEEN DEALS

• MalCare: 25% off on All Annual Plans
• BlogVault: 25% off on All Annual Plans
• Themeum: 40% off on all Themes & Plugins
• AliDropship:
  • 30% OFF AliDropship Plugin with the code HALLOWEEN30 at checkout
  • 20% OFF Custom Dropshipping Store with the code HALLOWEEN20 at checkout
  • 35% OFF all Add-ons with the code HALLOWEEN35 at checkout
• WPeka: Use coupon SPOOKY25 on checkout to get a 25% discount on all products.
• weForms $49 AppSumo Deal – a lifetime deal for this form builder.
• WP User Frontend Pro $49 AppSumo Deal – a lifetime deal for front-end submission forms.
• WP Project Manager $49 AppSumo Deal – use WordPress for project management with this lifetime deal.